OVERVIEW: Art in Embassies Program Gave Podestas, Jeff Koons, Rockefellers, Clintons, Marina Abramovic, Rothschilds even Alefantis access to a private shipping channel that could bypass airport security credit: @Swordfish69
Jeff Koons ‘Rabbit’ Sets Auction Record for Most Expensive Work by Living Artist
Robert E. Mnuchin, an art dealer and the father of Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, made the winning bid for Mr. Koons’s 1986 “Rabbit” from an aisle seat near the front of the salesroom. He was seated near Peter Brant, the collector and private museum-owner, and Jeffrey Deitch, the dealer.
It was the ultimate prize among six works offered at Christie’s from the collection of the magazine publisher S.I. Newhouse Jr., who died in 2017. Estimated to raise at least $50 million, this sculpture, made in an edition of three and one artist’s proof, was the last example left in private hands, according to Christie’s.
The price, surpassing the $90.2 million with fees achieved, again at Christie’s, for Mr. Hockney’s 1972 painting, “Portrait of an Artist (Pool With Two Figures),” confirmed how Mr. Koons’s metal sculptures have become the ultimate billionaire trophies produced during the contemporary art boom of the 1980s and ’90s. The Hockney milestone came at the expense of Mr. Koons, the previous record-holder, whose “Balloon Dog (Orange)” sold at auction for $58.4 million in November 2013.
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Blacksmith21 ago
That is insane - American artists like O'Keefe, Klee, Pollack, etc. don't even command prices like that. This reeks of a money laundering operation.
What really throws me is Mnuchin being involved. But art is art, regardless of who or what created it. I love art, but the industry is filled with freaks and creeps.
Nice find.
auralsects ago
That's because you're stupid. I pointed out long ago that his sister Valerie is ON THE BOARD of the Child Mind Institute.
And the Jewish publishing family who sold this Koons piece to this Jew Mnuchin is responsible for Teen Vogue's child-tranny, "Guide to Anal Sex" content (by Jewish writers).
You're something a Jew-lover, if I recall?
Blacksmith21 ago
Do me a favor, dickhead. Point where Mnuchin's sister is on the BOD: https://childmind.org/about-us/board-of-directors/
She co-chaired an event.
You're something of a pillow-biting Muslim bottom, IIRC?
HaroldTheGhoul ago
nice burn. top kek.
auralsects ago
LOL, so youre saying I made it up?
Disputing it means it's damaging to you; why wouldn't you just vaguely brush it off as 4-D underwater backgammon? you're so bad at this
looks like she left a month ago, to pack for GITMO right https://relationshipscience.com/news/story/valerie-mnuchin-is-no-longer-serving-in-their-boar-16516444
Blacksmith21 ago
I didn't dispute it, just didn't see it. If you weren't such a faggot asshole, you'd be slightly useful.
Oh_Well_ian ago
lol good times